Charles E. Grant

Charles E. Grant (1915-1985) was a US Army Staff Sergeant who served in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, US 506th Infantry Regiment during World War II.

Biography
Charles E. Grant enlisted in the US 506th Infantry Regiment when World War II broke out, and he was one of the non-commissioned officers who attempted to mutiny against Herbert Sobel. He fought at D-Day, in Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Haguenau, and the capture of the Berchtesgaden, sustaining wounds while taking down a Flak 88 in the Netherlands on 19 September 1944. One night in July 1945, he was shot in the head by a drunken paratrooper from I Company who had killed two German soldiers, a British major, and the major's driver, and he was narrowly saved by a German brain surgeon. He still had trouble talking and had a partially paralyzed left arm after the war, and he ran a small tobacco shop in San Francisco, California until his death in 1985.